American System
美国体制
Components
National bank the Second Bank of the U.S. rechartered, primarily to stabilise the country’s currency. | Internal improvements improve transportation, such as roads and canals | Tariff a protective tariff that increased European goods, which encouraged consumers to buy less expensive American goods |
Henry Clay
"I know no North, no South, no East, no West"
Nationalism v. Sectionalism
Nationalism is the belief that national interest should be ahead of any other interests such as regional interests.
Sectionalism is the opposite of nationalism which refers to a restriction of interest to a narrow sphere, regional interest. It will easily lead the nation to fall apart because every region wants to protect its own interest which may harm to the others.
